[LEAPSECS] Google, Amazon, now Microsoft

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <556B74EE.2040609 at edlmax.com>, Brooks Harris writes:

>> Because that is the only sane thing for them to do, given the (broken)
>> timekeeping in the software they run.

>Well, broken in what way for what purpose? An awful lot of people use 
>it.. 

Yeah, and more insects eat shit every minute than there ever will
be humans on the planet.

Quality is not a mater of majority.

>> The fundamental question about leapseconds is not about where Rob can
>> find the sun at noon, but about teaching an awful lot of rather crap
>> programmers how to cope with a infrequent and intractable complexity
>> on short notice.

>I don't think its fair to insult all the programmers.

That's why I wrote "an awful lot" rather than "all".


>> It seems like Daniels scheduling on this one may show us which is more
>> important.
>
>Sorry, lost track of what that comment refers to..

As far as I can tell, Daniel Gambis would have had no trouble
justifying scheduling this leapsecond at either the preceeding or
succeesding new years eve, but he decided to stick not to blunt the
impact and scheduled it Tue/Wed July 1st.

I'm glad he did, it's the only way to end the prophetizing:  What
ever happens or don't happen on july 1st will be valuable *factual*
input to the ITU decicion making process.

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